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She and had
She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.
She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;
She had helped him change his mind.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.
She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.
She had the feeling that, under the mouldering leaves, there would be the bodies of dead animals, quietly decaying and giving their soil back to the mountain.
She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, depriving her of reason and sight.
She had been snared here by a vile sensuality that writhed around her throat in ever-tightening circles.
She had to escape.
She had to move in some direction -- any direction that would take her away from this evil place.
She wondered what had taken place in town, between him and his wife.
She had spent too many hours looking ahead, hoping and longing to catch even a glimpse of Dan and finding nothing but emptiness.
She had arrived this morning and come straight to the English Gardens.
She had retreated to this world.
She had touched her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual.
She had hated the whole idea before they started.
She had jumped away from his shy touch like a cat confronted by a sidewinder.
She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.
She might have been someone he had once loved.
She began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car in the one spot that most of the crowd had detoured slightly.
She was sitting on the edge of the bed again, back in the same position where the snake had found her.

She and opportunity
She could not resist the opportunity `` of showing her superiority in argument over a man '' which she had remarked as one of the `` feminine follies '' of Sara Sullam ; ;
She walked back to the house and entered, feeling herself returning, sensing some kind of opportunity in the empty building.
She had no way of knowing in advance whether an opportunity for murder existed.
She died within a short time of the marriage ceremony and created the opportunity for Dom Pedro to escape with his true love and live in the city of Coimbra.
She did not have the opportunity to see her sons very often during her imprisonment, though she was released for special occasions such as Christmas.
She then goes back home to America, observing that they may have missed an opportunity.
She used the opportunity to denounce Christianity as irredeemable for women and to call for women ( and men ) to make an exodus from the Church.
She later explained that one of the reasons for accepting the role was that it gave her the opportunity to sing.
She used the opportunity to discuss the plight of women in Afghanistan during the U. S. invasion of Afghanistan, saying, " The brutal oppression of women is a central goal of the terrorists.
She used the opportunity to propagate her own Witch-Cult theory, failing to mention the alternate theories proposed by other academics.
She used this opportunity to launch her promotion of an Australian / New Zealand extension to her Gold Dust Tour in February and March 2006.
She forcefully takes advantage of any opportunity to further her goals.
She has stated that her attraction to this film was that it gave her the opportunity to work with close friends and family.
She studied at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she was given the opportunity to spend a year of her studies in Paris.
She first appears in the season 4 finale, " Learning To Fly " when Eric is trying to convince her for a second opportunity at a college entrance interview.
She gave him the opportunity to return to Europe to study art.
She argues that wit is natural, whereas learning is artificial, and that, in her time, men have more opportunity to educate themselves than women do.
She, however, saw a television show as a great opportunity to work with Desi as it would keep them both in Hollywood, and perhaps save their shaky marriage.
She had the opportunity to gather information from key figures in the Byzantine elite ; her husband Nikephorus Bryennios had fought in the clash with crusade leader Godfrey of Bouillon outside Constantinople on Maundy Thursday 1097, and her uncle George Palaeologus was present at Pelekanon in June 1097 when Alexius I discussed future strategy with the crusaders.
She petitioned the college for the opportunity to read such an address herself — a college professor was to read it instead.
She also met the 13th Dalai Lama twice in 1912, and had the opportunity to ask him many questions about Buddhism — a feat unprecedented for a European woman at that time.
She also found time and opportunity to travel to Paris, where she performed at the Salle Ventadour during the off season.
She took the precaution, however, of concluding a fresh secret alliance with Denmark, in which the Swedish revolution was significantly described as " an act of violence " constituting a casus foederis, and justifying both powers in seizing the first favourable opportunity for intervention to restore the Swedish constitution of 1720.
She did well in her Abbey training and was given an opportunity for a screen test in London.

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